Figure 1.-- This is a cabinet card portrait of James L. Caldwell Jr. He looks to be about 9-10 years old. The portrait was dated 1888. It is a little difficukt determining what lind of suit he is wering. It looks to be a stardard lael sack suit, but it has a back flap like a sailor suit. He has a large white collar, but difficult to see because of a luge floppy bow. It is a single colored bow with a kind of checked pattern, but we do not know the color. The studio was Schmedling in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The mount is the light-colored ones that becme very popular in the 1880s.

This is a cabinet card portrait of James L. Caldwell Jr. He looks to be about 9-10 years old. The portrait was dated 1888. It is a little difficukt determining what lind of suit he is wering. It looks to be a stardard lael sack suit, but it has a back flap like a sailor suit. A reader writes, "It looks as if the sailor back flap may button on. There is a button at the front left corner. A similar one might be present on the right corner. This is obscured by the floppy bow." We see two large buttons on each side of the jacket, but they seem to me to be ornamental. As far as we can tell they are just sewn on to the jacket. I see a kind of swirl on the flap that looks a bit like a button, but it looks more like like embroidery to us. He has a large white collar, but difficult to see because of a luge floppy bow. It is a single colored bow with a kind of checked pattern, but we do not know the color. The studio was Schmedling in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The mount is the light-colored ones that becme very popular in the 1880s. The studio information at the bottom as a pallette logo that is a little unusual. This is a torso portrait with a plain background and gradited shading.

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